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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Authorities say tourists discovered a body while they were taking photos at a national monument in western Colorado. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://tinyurl.com/kcn8puq ) the body was found Tuesday near the west entrance of the Colorado National Monument. Mesa County sheriff's investigators haven't...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Tennessee have found the body of a man who was thrown from an experimental aircraft while an instructor was teaching him to fly. Bradley County Interim Fire Chief Troy Spence says search crews located the deceased student pilot at about 11:45 a.m. Saturday. He...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - As a 2-year-old girl lay dead in the closet of a South Dakota home, another child invited two young neighbors over to take a look. Police allege the adults in the home were binging on drugs and didn't call 911 until 14 hours later. Twenty-one-year-old...

Search teams discovered body of a missing Salida woman Friday morning after two days of looking for her. According to a news release from the Chaffee County Sheriffs Office, the body of Sue Johnson, 55, was discovered in a sitting position with her back against a tree. She was located...

Pueblo County Sheriff's Office crews continue to look for a body in the Arkansas River near the Fremont County Line.
Rafters found the body earlier this afternoon and called authorities. So far, search crews have not located it. We'll continue to follow this story and bring you the latest...

DENVER (AP) - The family of a man whose body was found in a trash bin says he served in the U.S Army in the early 60s and spent his career as a laboratory technician helping improve the taste of coffee.
Seventy-one-year-old Gerald Schwartzman's body was found in a...

The body of one person has been found in the rubble of a home that exploded overnight in Colorado Springs.
Investigators have not identified the person. Two dogs have also been found dead. Another person is still unaccounted for.
The home on Knottwood Drive exploded around midnight. Fire...

Pueblo Police are investigating the discovery of a dead body. It was found after 3 p.m. near Santa Fe and Grand east of an area known as Hopes Crossing.
We have a crew there and we'll bring you more information as we get it here and on News First...

The Teller County Coroner says a body found earlier Wednesday in Woodland Park is that of Mindy Lee a mother of two from Manitou Springs.
Lee was reported missing on Friday the 26th in the area near Woodland Park High School. Officers found her body this morning east of...

A man accused of killing his girlfriend and dismembering her body is headed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. On Monday, John Paul Williams was found incompetent to stand trial in the murder of Rebecca Magallanes. News First 5 talked with the victim's brother and sister-in-law who are...

Many unanswered questions remain in the discovery of a man's body near Manzanola on Sunday. As the Otero County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate, many in this small Southern Colorado town are still dealing with the shock. "We never see this in Manzanola," says Christine Padilla, a Manzanola resident. The...

The Arkansas River has been the focus of search efforts for 49-year-old Beth Rice, who went missing two weeks ago.
Saturday morning she was found in the water, dead. However, right now police aren't looking for suspects.
"We don't feel that there's any foul play in this case...

A date has been set for a memorial service for slain Yale student Annie Le at her fiance's New York synagogue. Synagogue member Rich Pilatsky says the service will be Wednesday night at Temple Beth El in Huntington on Long Island. Temple leaders were to officiate at Le's wedding to...

El Paso County Sheriff's deputies say a badly decomposed body was found on a ranch off Highway 115 near the Fremont County line. Sunday, the body was identified as a man. They still don't know he he was.
"I've never seen anything like that before," said Mike Baier who...

New developments in the murder of a Pueblo man. A forensic anthropologist says it appears Brian Swartz died from a severe bludgeoning. Swartz's body was found in a shallow grave in Pueblo County earlier this month. The three suspects arrested for first degree murder are Swartz's common-law wife Sonia Mitchell,...

Police in Connecticut say they've found what they believe is the body of a missing Yale University graduate student.
They say the body was hidden inside the wall of a university building where Annie Le was last seen on Tuesday. It was in an area holding utility cables that...

The body of a missing Ohio hiker has been discovered at the bottom of a 300-foot cliff in rugged wilderness in southwestern Colorado. Searchers recovered the body of 21-year-old Joshua Gulvas late Friday following a three-day search. La Plata County sheriff's spokesman Dan Bender says Gulvas was found about 2...

A body found last weekend in a shallow grave near Pueblo, has been identified as Brian J. Swartz. The 30-year old had reportedly been missing. A hunter found Swartz's body on September 5, off of Highway 96 about 20 miles west of Pueblo. Pueblo County Coroner Jim Kramer says his...

Investigators with the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office are sifting through a scene Sunday after a hunter came across human remains Saturday afternoon.
According to investigators, retired Wildlife Officer Ron Zagar was dove hunting on property near the 9500 block of Hwy 96 West when he found the shallow grave...